As soon as the “ink” dried on my last post, Weighted Grades – The Good, The Bad and The Ugly, I read an article about how the University of Michigan is going stop re-calculating GPAs. Apparently the differences are not big enough to justify the effort. Give a point to the “grade grubbers”.
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Weighted Grades – The Good, The Bad and The Ugly
It seems that there are a large number of articles lately about schools/districts re-evaluating weighted grades and class rank (usually because of weighted). Weighted grades came about as a way to reward students for attempting more challenging classes. Without weighted grades, some students would not attempt the challenge of AP or IB classes for fear that [...]